Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1908 they were amalgamated to form The 4th Battalion ( TF ) . |
| 2 | We were sentenced to hang the next morning at the gallows of Montfaucon . |
| 3 | Three MXY6 canard gliders were built to test the tail-first concept of the Shinden . |
| 4 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 5 | Members of the Odiham Society resident in London ‘ and all friends of the Institution ’ were requested to attend the next meeting . |
| 6 | This seemed to be further corroborated when we were invited to join the second phase of a research project being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research and the Further Education Unit . |
| 7 | A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 . |
| 8 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 9 | Statistics were anslysed using the FIRST statistics package ( Serious Statistical Software , Willaston , South Wirral ) . |
| 10 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 11 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 12 | Informants were asked to circle the first SF element in the passage . |
| 13 | If it had not , they were asked to ignore the next set of questions . |
| 14 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 15 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 16 | They believed that anything could be obtained by force and were determined to exact the last drop of blood . |
| 17 | At a conference in The Hague , the Netherlands , on June 18-19 , 1990 , over 120 new European research projects were launched to mark the fifth anniversary of the Eureka programme . |
| 18 | The body was found on the day that celebrations were held to mark the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Sharpness to Gloucester canal . |
| 19 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 20 | Although the medal was minted to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the war , it received virtually no publicity . |
| 21 | Ostensibly the visit was designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between China and Japan . |
| 22 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 23 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37948 ] , the newly formed MPD defeated the PAICV and was expected to form the next government after the February presidential elections . |
| 24 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 25 | X-rays were taken , his condition was pronounced not serious , and he was told to attend the next month if he was n't better . |
| 26 | A 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C was used to detect the first intron HS sites 5A and 5B . |
| 27 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |
| 28 | It was agreed to hold the sixth round of talks in January 1992 . |
| 29 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 30 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |